NFS V4 introduces many substantial changes to the protocol. For example, the
design of NFS predates the widespread adoption of the World Wide Web. It was
originally designed for use in local area networks. With the advent of
internetworking, there has been a greater need to use distributed file systems,
such as NFS, in wide area networks. When NFS is used for distributed file
systems across wide area networks, the security capabilities in pre-Version 4
implementations become apparent.
NFS V4 goes a long way to overcome the shortcomings of NFS V2 and V3, and
adds additional features left out in the NFS V3 imple ...
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